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The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration is scheduled to walk on Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Saturday, Sept. 5, despite COVID-19. But many of the social aspects tied to the 10-day event from the non-denominational worship service on Sunday to after show musical entertainment are cancelled for the 82nd annual run...

Twenty-two school age children in Bedford County tested positive for COVID-19 in the seven days leading up to the opening of county schools on Aug. 3. (The state’s reporting of school age children includes all between the ages of 5 and 18.) The state began reporting on the total number of cases and new cases of the coronavirus in school age children on July 18. ...

Fifteen dead cattle being hauled to a rendering plant were scattered across a field on State Highway 64 West after a truck carrying the remains overturned at mid-morning Friday. The driver was slightly injured, rescuers said.

Officers were searching Friday for a man who pointed a handgun at a Mullinswood Road resident and demanded a ride to an ATM. The victim, who did not fulfill the man’s request, described him as white, standing 5-feet-8 to 5-feet-9, weighing around 180 pounds, and wearing a black mask covering the lower half of his face and white paint on his forehead. She said the man confronted her outside her home as she was leaving...

A suspect has been arrested in an incident involving an armed man’s threat to a Mullinswood Road resident last Friday morning. Jesse Gordon, 29, of Shelbyville was arrested Monday afternoon by Detective Todd Sanders of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. Gordon is charged with aggravated assault and aggravated attempted robbery...

Mayor Chad Graham announced Wednesday that Shelbyville City Manager Shanna Boyette has been officially hired by his office as Bedford County Government’s new human resources director. Boyette said Wednesday the move is a personal one; she and her husband, Jason, a local teacher, have two young daughters-one in junior high and the other a freshman in high school. ...

A fire, early Monday morning, in a food service room at Cascade Middle School resulted in heavy smoke damage to several large areas of the school. School officials were planning to reopen the school Wednesday although “Students will not be able to have access in the damaged areas,” wrote school superintendent Don Embry...

Schools are set to open for an abbreviated day on Monday. With only nine nurses currently on staff, school board members have discussed how this may not be enough medical professionals to feasibly cover 15 facilities during the current pandemic. Superintendent Don Embry told school board members recently, “We do have some schools which share nurses. ...

A woman who allegedly threatened a pizza delivery driver she thought was involved with her boyfriend was arrested after attempting to hit a police officer Friday night, according to an incident report. Rebecca Louise Glowacay, 33, of a Madison Street apartment complex allegedly beat the pizza driver’s car with her fists while telling her in front of an officer, “If I get my hands on you...” The driver told police she doesn’t know Glowacay’s boyfriend and parked next to his vehicle while trying to determine her customer’s apartment via cellphone. ...

Bedford County Fire Department personnel finish up after checking a blaze early Tuesday at The Hitching Post, Warners Bridge Road.The fire of undetermined origin started around the stage, a BCFD spokesman said.

SGT James Marshall Smith and LT JG P.M. Willis left Bedford County during the early 1940s to serve their country during World War II. While sadly neither made it back home, two local bridges have been named in their honor off Highway 130 West over 70 years later...